Gilbert, Innovation and Management

The most important skills that Google looks for when hiring

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

When conducting research for his latest book, Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner interviewed hundreds of thought leaders in creativity, innovation, and talent management. One of them is Judy Gilbert, director of Talent at Google. Here’s what Gilbert has to say: [.].

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Are you a Scientist or an Engineer? Things to think about.

Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

In what ways might I serve to create a bridge for teams and managers to understand their view and use that to achieve results? When working one on one coaching a manager through successes, challenges and workable goals , how would I illustrate humbleness while being arrogant to have the conviction to develop the needed knowledge?

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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Bret Simmons takes us into sudden death overtime as we reflect on the importance of self management in leaders: Prudence: An Undervalued Virtue of Leadership. Gwyn Teatro of You’re Not The Boss of Me plays quarterback as she leads discussion of the next play in the huddle with Managing and Leading….Lessons is hiring.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". This is the title of the first day of the 28-day training program in the back of The Little Black Book of Innovation.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. Instead of passive subscribers, it created “communities of friends” who generated new story ideas and collaborated with Fast Company staff to develop themes of the “new management revolution.”. Informal leadership Managing people'

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Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. For Gilbert, that meant attracting people who had worked at pure-play Internet companies like Yahoo!,

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” Our colleague Clark Gilbert described more than a decade ago a great irony of disruption. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. While Govindarajan and Trimble's guidance makes sense at a high level, coloring in the details related to portfolio management, decision making, and managing distinct cultures presents challenges.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/3/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.].

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. The list goes on.

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Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Yale School of Management Professor Dick Foster notes that a single firm cannot innovate faster than the market in which it participates. A large company just can't innovate faster than the market. But a large company can innovate better than the market. And the odds are pretty high that she is going to lose. Why is that?

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method.

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How Will You Measure Your Company's Life?

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

However, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby , and other thoughtful commentators have noted that the intent to maximize shareholder value has resulted in myopic management overly obsessed with short-term financial returns. Inevitably, many potential future strategies involved tradeoffs.

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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

That''s partly because they''re older cities with smaller land areas to manage. Policy innovation. The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert. But it''s also because they remained central to regional economic life. Entrepreneurs.

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What Changes When AI Is So Accessible That Everyone Can Use It?

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. Zooming in on the sales challenge helps to highlight the difficulty of business model innovation.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Negotiating Innovation and Control

Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/3/12)

How to Revive a Tired Network

Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?

How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

How Will You Measure Your Company's Life?

There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

What Changes When AI Is So Accessible That Everyone Can Use It?

What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

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